Sunday, October 26, 2008

Blogger Blog Is Bloggy Styled Mate!

Yes that's right after years of sitting on my borken office chair, I have finally aligned my blog to match my webpage. Pretty cool huh?
Well, it's not really much. It just took me a long time to get around to doing it. Now it's mostly done. The text is formated very differently from the rest of my website, so that may need to be addressed. Meanwhile it's a lot better looking than a default template.
Let's see if I can keep the hits coming.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Website changes still coming

Preface:
Basically I have 4 hours a day to kill during my commute. I don't drive to work, I take the train and it takes two hours each way. I suppose I could take credit for being "green" with all this, but it's really just because I don't want to put all the miles on my car, and I don't really get paid enough to justify the gas expenses yet.
So this leaves me with a comfortable ride on two trains and a lot thumb twiddling time. I have an old (really old) laptop but it keeps crashing after a few weeks of use and needs to be reformatted often. The battery life is quite dismal as well. So...

On Topic:
With all this low tech greatness, I have begun to dedicate time to web design and traditional art. Whenever I get some smooth time on the train I spend some time sketching (or trying to sketch) and if the laptop is working, I can dictate changes to html files or other minor web code adjustments.
So far this seems to be working out to a small degree. I would really like to be able to keep updates for this blog and other files prepped and ready to as soon I get home to publish, but I will continue having to split the clock and make do with what I have.
This weekend I was able to update the video presentation for the U-CAP website I have been moderating and made some minor tweaks to my own again.
You can check them out here:
http://www.unitingclergyandpolice.com
So updates will keep coming ...

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Multibox Cruising Strong

Well, it seems to be. The latest app I've added to my website seems to working quite well. So far I've fixed the flash banner to work with the overlay and not cause weird tearing of the screen and I've updated the links as thumbnails to be a little more inline with each project.

The current thing that is bugging me is the question of how I should manage my online resume and whether or not I should worry about the growing tail at the end of the main page.
There's also a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of Firefox and Safari browsers as well. Must be the way I've integrated the links.

I'm really liking the single page layout design for my own projects and feel it works well for a project oriented web page. Not really any reasons for visitors to check out other links or pages. Unless they actually "want" to read this blog.

That brings up the next round of goals for the page. Aside from adding new projects, I want to style this blog to match the website and try to do the same for the MySpace and YouTube pages as well.

Resume: update,
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway has shipped along with Brothers in Arms: Double Time and Samba De Amigo!
Blog: styled - because people like to read
Myspace: styled - because people always send me messages there ...
Youtube: styled - because it should match the rest

Peace out for now ...